Mastizaade - Preview

I just endured the most disgusting 3 minutes and 41 seconds of my life. I can't even be bothered to tell why I am not going to watch this one. Just read this preview of Kya Kool Hain Hum 3 and multiply by a few 100.

So-So,
by Josh,
fullhyd.com
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...Nonetheless, in comparison to its most recent competition, Mastizaade is more written, better enacted, more entertaining (Meet Bros Anjjan come up with catchy tunes), and generally something you wouldn't mind spending a couple of hours on this weekend. If you are into that sort of thing, we mean. It isn't exactly a good film, but as mentioned, when you compare with KKHH3, this is practically Woody Allen.
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Thumbs down,
by Anna MM Vetticad,
annavetticadgoes2themovies
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...Insensitivity is not Mastizaade’s only problem though. In fact, some people might consider this quality a film’s selling point. So no, Mastizaade’s problem is its absolute lack of originality and boring repetitiveness.
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Thumbs down,
by Bobby Sing,
Bobby Talks Cinema.com
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...Studying the last week’s KYA KOOL HAIN HUM 3 and MASTIZAASE together, the two films actually reveal the misconception or lesser understanding of this particular genre in our present filmmakers unfortunately. With a similar outcome in both the cases, where KKHH3 had only Krishna coming up with some enjoyable moments occasionally, in MASTIZAADE we have Sunny Leone alone and that too just as a pretty face unable to save the film from becoming a pathetic disaster.
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by Suparna Sharma,
Deccan Chronicle
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...Arre bhai, here we are, with cinema tickets. Corrupt us, please. But for that Bollywood will have to man-up first and stop pretending we are a nation of gurgling morons who get off on montages of cleavage. Tusshar is 39, Ritesh 37 and Vir Das 36. Time to grow up, you think?
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Thumbs down,
by Smita Vyas Kumar,
Desi Martini
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...Verdict - A bawdy movie that doesn't go beyond dirty jokes strung up on a thin story line and lots and lots of skin. Works for you? Go for it
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Thumbs down,
by Sidhant Shori,
Desi Martini
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...Mastizaade shouldn't exist. It's a poorly made, unfunny and downright disgusting movie. Vir Das seems to be the only one trying amongst the cast and even he isn't great. Sunny Leone seems to be there only to strike a pose and not much else. Just don’t watch it.
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Thumbs down,
by Rachit Gupta,
Filmfare
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...This film is plain embarrassment for those who made it and those who decide to watch it.
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Thumbs down,
by Johnson Thomas,
Free Press Journal
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...‘Mastizaade’ is basically a combination of several contrived incidents put together to constitute a whole. The objective is clearly to facilitate double meaning dialogues and set-pieces and therefore severely lacking in logic. And the chief elements here are a double dose of skimpily clad Sunny Leone, some peppy numbers, loud, unnecessarily over-the-top double meaning dialogues and antiquated comedic set-pieces trying hard to score on the laughs.
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Thumbs down,
by Martin D'Souza,
Glamsham.com
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...Also, you need an actor in the lead who can act, not just flaunt her assets! I've never heard of anyone getting turned on by a robot!
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Thumbs down,
by Rohan Naahar,
Hindustan Times
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...If I was locked in a room with Hitler and Osama and had one bullet I would shoot this movie. And damn you movie for making Vir Das do this. You can see the effort on the poor guy’s face. And know this, movie, he is the only reason you’re getting half a star. Actually, scratch that. Zero stars is what you deserve. Not that it matters, but still. The rest of you deserves to be banned, and that’s coming from a person who’s against censorship of any kind.
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Thumbs down,
by RAJEEV MASAND,
IBN Live
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...For some, the promise of two Sunny Leones for the price of one may be enough to invest in a ticket of Mastizaade. But believe me, there is such a thing as too much heaving bosom and jiggling backside. I found myself cringing more than laughing at the film’s idea of outrageous, adult humor. I’m going with one out of five.
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Thumbs down,
by Uday Bhatia,
Live Mint
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...Material like this is beyond saving, though Das’ stand-up instincts allow him to salvage a line or two. Kapoor is difficult to watch as he flounces around, making faces and trying to do what Riteish Deshmukh does with somewhat better results in similar films. Suresh Menon hams unconscionably as the token gay character. And it’s particularly sad to see the veteran comic Asrani turn up as Laila and Lily’s father; it seems unfair that someone who worked with Hrishikesh Mukherjee should one day find himself working with Milap Zaveri.
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Thumbs down,
by Shubha Shetty-Saha,
MiD DAY
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...The film, touted as a sex comedy, is neither funny nor sexy. We are relentlessly served dollops of crude, unfunny innuendos instead. One flash of genuine humour comes in the form of the commercials that the friends make, but when you look at the whole picture, that seems like a stray stroke of luck than any kind of constructive creative thinking....
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Thumbs down,
by Pankhurie Mulasi,
Movie Talkies
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...The screenplay is nonexistent and the songs, which pop up after every fifteen minutes, only make it more boring. The dialogues are crass and most of them are in rhymes. Guess the makers thought that they don't need a script as they have the sultry Leone as the female lead. That said we have to say she definitely is the film's only highlight.
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Thumbs down,
by Divya Solgama,
MoviezADDA
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...Music is one of the biggest saving grace in this film. ‘Mastizaade’, ‘Dekhega Raja Trailer’, ‘Rom Rom Romantic’ and ‘Hor Nach’ are peppy and foot tapping.
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Thumbs down,
by Raja Sen,
Rediff
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...What people who make movies like Mastizaade need to realise is that the word Adult means more than a movie rating. Even the absolute daftest of sex comedies have room for something sharp and clever and cheeky. Because Austin Powers minus the groovy is just pervy, baby, pervy.
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Thumbs down,
by Sonia Chopra,
Sify Movies
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...One looks forward to the day where these films with kool, fun titles actually live up to their names. Till then, this is yet another disappointing, recycled attempt at a sex-comedy.
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Thumbs down,
by Namrata Joshi,
The Hindu
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...In other words the infantilization of the viewers is complete. Only question left to ask after two hours: would you call this a film?...
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Thumbs down,
by Meena Iyer,
Times of India
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...Every 20 minutes, a song breaks. Sunny, who is on familiar territory, looks gorgeous as she parades in an assortment of bikinis. She has also mastered the Bollywood song-dance routine and gracefully sashays to Rom Rom Romantic and Hor Nach. Bollywood believes that if you have Sunny in a film, you do not need a script.
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Comments (6)

The few words of preview from Meetu above are worth saving. Whenever a garbage from Kashyap and co comes out, the same text could be easily copy-pasted.

To single out a film based on its contents is poor "reviewing" technique. Porn comedies have their target audience just as poverty reality stricken gangs of garbage have their limited target audience.

There are adult magazines, there are adult jokes, there are adult videos, ... so why not adult films. I prefer such outright obvious stuff that do not hide anything (pun intended) compared to the sexual filth spewn by YRF and Dharma films that are lapped up by all under the guise of liberalization, freedom of expression and what not. Worst those YRF and Dharma films mislead people by promoting their films as family films and then come the cringe moments when one is watching it with family across generations and those kind of scenes flare up the screen. So it is 100 times better to have Mastizaades to release one's pent up feelings and laugh on innuendos rather than have such innuendos disguised under a social family film.

So: okay if you don't enjoy such films Meetu, fair enough. But I would prefer that you come out so openly against all sex exploitation whether it is in Jab Tak Hai Jaan kind of films or Shuddh Desi Romance kind of films or Bombay Velvet kind of films - and not be hypocritical like the award wapsi gangs with selective outburst against sexploitation done by a select few (read Ekta or Milap).

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Anuj

" prefer such outright obvious stuff that do not hide anything (pun intended) compared to the sexual filth spewn by YRF and Dharma films that are lapped up by all under the guise of liberalization, freedom of expression and what not." ~ lapped up by a very limited audience since the multiplex era of the mid 2000's and the audience continues to diminish, as evident by the distribution disaster Dilwale and the downfall of the wannabe SRK Shahid Kapoor.

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Anuj

Like any other genre, sex comedies too need to be well made films that are good enough to tickle the funny bone in order to get success. Grand Masti managed that and so did Delhi Belly. KKHH3 and Mastizaade failed on this count and hence have flopped. The author's reviewing techniques have gone from bad to worse, as evident by the blasphemous review of Bombay Velvet which was a lot more nauseating than my deleted comment on the Dilwale review for the most stupid and frivolous reason I'v ever come across.

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Fan

@Anuj: I agree that sex comedies must be well made (like any other genre). Should have a strong story line, and a good star-cast. Several commercially successful Hollywood films testify to that, and our very own Shaukeen with Ashok Kumar, Utpal Dutt and A K Hangal is another example, and the evergreen British Carry On series or Benny Hill episodes are a testimony to how successful such films could be. None of that (story, good star cast) being present in both the most recent porncoms, obvious reason for their failure.

But shooting out adult films just because they are adult content based, in my opinion, is incorrect. I would not have seen any of those 2 films, but there is an audience out there for such films. So what's wrong to have such films.

And the most annoying part is that when some cuss words are used in an arty film it is appreciated and the same cuss words are used in porncoms then they are sneered at by almost always the same people. This I find as sheer hypocrisy. As I said, I prefer knowing what to expect so that I make the choice to watch it or skip it rather than have incorrect expectations - walk in the theatre - and then get highly cringeworthy moments to sit through.

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Anuj

"And the most annoying part is that when some cuss words are used in an arty film it is appreciated and the same cuss words are used in porncoms then they are sneered at by almost always the same people. This I find as sheer hypocrisy"~ very well said. Omkara & GOW come to mind straight away (not that they were bad films imo)

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@Fan "To single out a film based on its contents is poor "reviewing" technique"

- What else does a review do if not base its opinion on content?- I don't have a problem with cuss words. I am averse to the crass way in which everything is talked about in such films. I don't like such articles or jokes either. Now, what you and I find crass might be very subjective, so there is going to be a difference in opinion.

I was okay with the crassness in Delhi Belly but not so in the trailers of Grand Masti or Mastizaade or even the Hangover series.

That is just the way it is.

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